Both literary creation and literary appreciation can be a simple and pure thing. Laugh at the wind today and make a snowy moon tomorrow. As a poet, as long as I am happy and write my own feelings and thoughts, I am complete. But literary criticism is different. Literary criticism comes from comparison. Comparison means competition and competition means cruelty. In the cruel literary competition, an important measure is originality.
Furthermore, as far as today's poetry is concerned, it is also a style of the minority. Only a few people are writing and studying poetry. Most people don't even know what a metrical department is. And fewer students learn to write poems. In education, poetry is not taught in present education. Just ask you to recite and appreciate. If you like, you can only teach yourself or ask others.
In addition to the above reasons, there is another important reason why modern people can't write poems as good as those of the ancients. Ancient literati were often influenced by various aspects in ancient times, and the imperial examination system influenced them from an early age. Therefore, poetry and songs are naturally good. We modern people are better at vernacular Chinese. If you carefully study the poems of the ancients, you will find that most famous writers can write good works, all of which have been honed by the world, such as Du Fu, Mu Zhi, You An, Shao You and Taibai, and even the style of ci has changed greatly after Shigemitsu was captured. Therefore, you can't write such unforgettable works without going through so much. Everything needs to settle. In today's peaceful and prosperous times, everyone is very comfortable, and naturally there is no such emotion as love and hate of the ancients.